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GLOUCESTER — The Gloucester School Board unanimously approved Tuesday night building a middle school for grades 6-8 on T.C. Walker Road and leaving what's left of Page Middle School on Route 17 untouched and surrounded by a chain link fence. The School Board opted to build a new school on T.C. Walker Road with $18 million in funding pledged last month by the Board of Supervisors over rebuilding Page Middle School, which was heavily damaged by a tornado on April 16. The funding from the Board of Supervisors was $5 million less than the School Board had sought.

GLOUCESTER — Discolored water that's prompted a flood of complaints to the county's Public Utilities Department doesn't pose a health problem. Residents and businesses on the county's utilities system in Gloucester Point started seeing discoloration in the water coming out of the tap on Wednesday, said Marty Schlesinger, director of the Public Utilities Department. The reports of discolored water primarily are occurring in Gloucester Point, though a couple of calls came in from outlying areas such as Roaring Springs Road, he said.

Lorrie Triplett of Suffolk lost her husband in October 2000 when an attack on the USS Cole killed 17 sailors. Then she gained a few lifelong friends. Triplett, a grieving Navy widow with two children, bonded with a woman who also lost her husband that day and who, like Triplett, had small children. She befriended another man who lost his son in the attack, and he became like a father figure to her. "To be in a group setting and to lean on each other, it really helps in that aspect," she said this week.

NEWPORT NEWS – With the fluid precision of a well-oiled machine, Christopher Newport University's freshman class moved into their dormitories this weekend. Cars stuffed with incoming students and most of their worldly belongings – televisions, refrigerators, guitars and golf clubs – began lining up outside York River Residence Hall early Saturday morning. While the freshman were inside registering, upperclassman volunteers swiftly unpacked the cars, placing boxes and bins into gargantuan rubber totes on wheels and wheeling them up to the students' new digs.

A new dining experience will soon be offered in the area between Riverwalk Landing and the Newport News line. The Revolt will open in the building that formerly housed Tuscany's Coffee House. The opening date moved from Aug. 1 to Aug. 5, but now looks closer to Aug. 19 or thereabouts, according to co-owners Tim and Lisa Insley. The Revolt, at 6605 George Washington Memorial Highway at the intersection of Route 17 and Denbigh Boulevard, will serve lunch and dinner. It will be open every day except Tuesdays.

NORFOLK - The chairman of the largest exporter of United States coal took the reigns as the Virginia Port Authority's new chairman on Tuesday as part of a mass overhaul orchestrated by Gov.Bob McDonnell. Michael J. Quillen, the chairman and former chief executive officer of Abingdon-based Alpha Natural Resources, was sworn into office alongside eight other new members of the port authority's board of directors, a 12-person board that oversees the direction and strategy of the region's seaports.

Memorial Day and the Fourth of July have come and gone. But in Gloucester and Mathews counties, the annual season of community events has just begun. Through September, there's an event or concert nearly every weekend somewhere on the Middle Peninsula. Gloucester The outdoor family fun continues this weekend with the Renaissance Festival in the Historic Courthouse Circle. The festival runs Saturday and Sunday and is free and open to the public. The Gloucester County Fair returns Aug. 2-6 in Ark Park, about two miles north of Gloucester Courthouse on Route 17. On August 11, Richmond-based singer/songwriter Susan Greenbaum will perform a free concert on the Historic Courthouse Green from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Sept.

This 4th of July, Samantha Wallace, 15, a rising junior at York High School, plans to be in Philadelphiato tap the Liberty Bell in Independence National Historical Park. Every 4th of July, dignitaries and direct descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Independence — referred to as Junior Members of The Society of the Descendants of the Declaration of Independence — are invited to be bell-tappers. The bell is tapped at 2 p.m. each year to celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

York County School Division officials don't have major construction projects planned for school facilities this summer, but the district will make improvements. The capital projects are an energy conservation project at Mount Vernon Elementary School and installation of a geothermal heating, ventilating and air conditioning system as well as window and floor tile replacement at Dare Elementary School, said district Associate Director for Capital Plans and Projects Mark Tschirhart.